JunchenDeng

@fkttkm Do people eat it in Japan? They are quite common around this time in my hometown in southern China, and we cook it often with pork. I miss the taste a lot since I moved to Europe. I found it once in Poland when I was doing field work in a nature reserve, and I cooked it :)

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Our paper is now out in its final form in @natcomms ! We show that ancient #insect #symbionts can undergo extreme, convergent #genome reduction to as little as ~50 kb - driven by ecological shifts and symbiont replacement. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467… More below 👇 1/

めちゃくちゃ短いDNAの生物見つかる。ウンカの体内に住む細菌ビダニアのゲノムはたったの5万塩基対。ウンカのためにフェニルアラニンを作る機能しか持ってない。もうウンカの一部になりそう。 → Symbiotic bacteria break record for smallest non-organelle genome phys.org/news/2026-02-s…

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The 2025 pumpkin competition has two unique specimens! Make your choice: Top or bottom!? The winner will get 1kg of candy!

Our long-lasting research project on an amazing stinkbug-fungus relationship "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" finally comes out in Science! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #symbiosis #insect #fungus #stinkbug

It was very nice to have participate on this study where we describe 2 novel fossil species of Paleoophiocordyceps, also providing insights into the evolution of animal-associated fungi

Our new paper is out! Two new species of Paleoophiocordyceps. Cretaceous entomopathogenic fungi illuminate the early evolution of insect–fungal associations | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences #purchaseArea" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

We had an amazing time filled with inspiring discussions on Ophiocordyceps, symbiosis, and our collaborative research. Exciting plans ahead :) @symPiotr @joaofungo @JunchenDeng

These cicadas belong to the same species! Dundubia vaginata

Different types of mitochondria transit between cells Featuring work by @BrestoffLab and other contributors to this exciting field nature.com/articles/d4158…

🚀 Exciting news for early-career researchers! The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. Applications are open now! postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Excited to share an additional preprint on mealybug diversification and its associations with endosymbionts and host plants. Thanks @FilipHusnik @Sym_biologist! Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Beetles are masters at coopting microbial genes, enzymes & metabolites. In this @TrendsMicrobiol article, @MarlenyGarciaL1 & I review how microbes shaped one of the most successful animal radiations, thru horizontal gene transfer & symbiosis: cell.com/trends/microbi…

Tomohito Noda, Masaki Mizutani and other colleagues' interesting discovery of frequent asymmetric division observed among the Blattabacterium endosymbionts of cockroaches is now available online: doi.org/10.1128/aem.01…

“We were completely deceived by its camouflage.” In #Malaysia, a nature educator saw what he thought was a #snail...it's our Observation of the Week! Read the story at: inaturalist.org/blog/98469-is-… #nature #biodiversity #lepidoptera

I am super excited that one of the most interesting finding in my lab was published in @NatureMicrobiol !! Have you heard about the fungus that helps carnivorous plants digest insects? 🐜🍃

Ryuga Sugiyama's great experimental work on host range of an artificial symbiotic E. coli and natural Pantoea symbiont both mutualistic to the stinkbug Plautia stali is out! - Unexpectedly, E. coli was more host specific than natural symbiont doi.org/10.1128/mbio.0…

Check out the latest #planthopper tree based on genomic data! #phylogenomics #Auchenorrhyncha #Hemiptera doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Great collaboration with colleagues in different fields! @jacek_szwedo @symPiotr @LepPhylo @hamid_hrg @EtkaYapar @diecasfranco @AnnaMichalik17

We are very proud to announce our new paper published in mSystems, in which we described unique bacterial association and transmission mechanisms alongside other unique symbiosis evolutionary patterns! with @symPiotr @diecasfranco journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

There are worms that live in the sub-freezing waters of the Ross Sea, next to Antarctica. These worms can withstand the cold temperature, it seems, because the bacteria in their guts make cryo-protective proteins that reduce the freezing point of internal liquids.